{"product_id":"9781869409777-a-riderless-horse","title":"A Riderless Horse","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe third poetry collection from Palmerston North poet Tim Upperton.\u003cbr\u003eI was Dick. I teased Anne and George.I was Edmund, betrayed my friendsfor a sweet. Something rotten in me.— from ‘My childhood’In his third poetry collection, award-winning poet Tim Upperton takes us to the end of the driveway, over the Manawatū – twisting like an eel – and on to Topeka and Paris. These are poems of acid wit (‘I have been to Paris \/ and apart from the architecture \/ and the food and some very fine cemeteries \/ and of course the language \/ it’s quite like Palmerston North’), intimations of loss (‘The wrong life cannot be lived rightly. I should know’) and unexpected resolution (‘like pollen, \/ like grace so available nobody wanted it’). Unpredictable and restive, A Riderless Horse stands in the everyday and then runs with it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56732807594358,"sku":"9781869409777","price":10.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_37680578.jpg?v=1764061131","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781869409777-a-riderless-horse","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}